Standard Stories From the Operas

Davidson, Gladys

The Bodley Head

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The Ritz

Watts, Stephen

How Shakespeare Spent The Day

BROWN, Ivor

Bound in publisher's original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Frontispice of Fitzgerald and additional photographic illustrations throughout. Price clipped dust jacket shows minor wear at extremities.

Letters

Fitzgerald,F.Scott

Turnbull, Andrew (editor)

A Sort of Life

Graham. Greene

Biographies & Memoirs

Keep It Clean

Lia Low

Contains nearly 80 of Greene's essays, reviews and occasional pieces composed between novels, plays and travel books over four decades, covering an eclectic and stimulating range of subjects. Originally published by the Bodley Head in 1969.

Collected Essays

Literature & Fiction

GREENE, GRAHAM

Literary

The Unnamed Stream and Other Poems

Almedingen, E. M.

The Borgias are one of the most notorious families in European history, not because of any lasting achievements nor for long occupation of positions of power and influence, but because of the moral outrages committed by members of two generations of the family at a time when Italy was at the centre of the European stage. The activities of Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI, and his children, Cesare and Lucrezia, have attracted the attention of poets, playwrights, novelists and musicians as well as contemporary pamphleteers and historians of all subsequent generations. Most of these have devoted themselves to describing the private lives of these members of the Borigia family, thus creating the impression that the only memorable things about them were their poisonings and their incest.\nWhat has rarely been attempted in any reasonably accessible form, and therefore with little impact on popular ideas, is an assessment of the social and political aims and achievements of the Borgia family as a whole. Who were the Borgias? What were they doing in the fifteenth century that made them so hated and feared in Italy? What were the wider implications of the two Borgia pontificates? What happened to the family after the death of Alexander VI? These are the questions which this book attempts to answer for the benefit of as wide an audience as possible. The main significance of the Borgias lies not in their crimes and immoralities but in the dramatic rise of the family from a position of relatively obscure Spanish nobility to the highest position in Renaissance society. It lies in the policies of Alexander VI as one of the leading Popes of the the extent to which these policies were designed for the continued advancement of the family, and the extent to which he succeeded in creating positions of influence and importance for his family in Italy, France, and Spain, which survived for over two centuries.

The Borgias: The Rise and Fall of a Renaissance Dynasty

Mallett, Michael Edward

China Helpers: Western Advisers in China, 1620-1960

Spence. Jonathan

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